Apr 5, 2006 • 1 min read

Thom Yorke attacks music industry in NME

Thom Yorke has told NME that Radio 1 does not play anything decent and that the mainstream music business is full of retards, speaking about the rise of Arctic Monkeys.

Thom Yorke has had a go at music industry types in interview in this week's NME, calling them "fucking retards". The Radiohead frontman told the magazine: Talking of the rise of Arctic Monkeys the singer said: "A good thing for new music would be more of the mainstream loosening up a bit and letting stuff through. Radio 1 won't play anything fucking decent. You need to sort the radio out. The fact that poor Arctic Monkeys are getting so much attention is purely based on the fact that the mainstream music business is such a bunch of fucking retards as far as I'm concerned."

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